Questions tagged [load-average]
In UNIX family Operating Systems, the load average represents the average system load over a period of time.
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How to understand the memory usage and load average in linux server
I am using a linux server which has 128GB of memory and 24 cores. I use top to see how much it is used. Its output is pasted at the end of the post. Here are two questions:
(1) I see that each of the ...
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High load average, low cpu
My server has slowed down, and I don't know why.
Print from top:
top - 14:32:50 up 639 days, 6:30, 1 user, load average: 67.93, 70.63, 79.85
Tasks: 245 total, 1 running, 244 sleeping, 0 ...
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High CPU utilization but low load average
We are running into a strange behavior where we see high CPU utilization but quite low load average.
The behavior is best illustrated by the following graphs from our monitoring system.
At about 11:...
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Storing / calculating historical load averages
When I run uptime, I get output similar to the following:
07:50:39 up 13 days, 5:00, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
Is there a way, other than by running uptime every X-many minutes, to ...
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CPU 100% idle but still showing load average
I have a Blade Server with CentOS 6.4.
On idle state it shows a constant load average of more than 1. However I prepared another machine having the same hardware and CentOS version and its load ...
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Explain load averages on Solaris 10
I understand load averages on Linux, but am a bit mystified by the load averages on a legacy Solaris 10 machine my app runs on. The load averages seem impossibly high. Here's the output.
[netcool1 (...
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Server problems, running out of RAM, really high load average
I desperately need help in figuring out how to troubleshoot this problem I'm having. I run a fairly mission critical web server (Debian 7.5, 512MB RAM, 512MB swap, Apache, MySQL). It runs a couple ...
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High wa but no IO usage
My VPS is having extremely high wa (around 90), but there is no IO usage taking place.
htop:
iotop:
nethogs:
What can be the problem here?
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High load average on MySQL server [closed]
Recently we're experiencing serious performance problem on our MySQL server. Application server and database server are separate. At the database server end, load average getting higher in no time. ...
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